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Author: | NTE [ Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:07 am ] |
Post subject: | $1000 portable device for counterfeit drug detection |
New story today about a $1000 portable Raman device for counterfeit drug detection developed by the FDA. If this is suitable for field use in Africa for anti-malarials, I expect this could work for gemology in the field. Your tax dollars at work . http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-sci-fda-counterfeit-detection-device-20130424,0,1133472.story http://www.securingindustry.com/pharmaceuticals/fda-goes-its-own-way-with-counterfeit-detection-device/s40/a1405/ |
Author: | mikko [ Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:32 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: $1000 portable Raman device for counterfeit drug detecti |
It looks like very nice product, photographing fluorescence reactions of materials illuminated with multiple wavelengths. Yes, it may have some really cool use in gemology, but it is not a Raman. |
Author: | G4Lab [ Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:01 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: $1000 portable device for counterfeit drug detection |
It's closer to deBeers DiamondView. But of does not use such short wave illumination. (Diamond View <230nm, very difficult and expensive illumination to produce) anti Malarial drugs are very fluorescent. The original , quinine sulfate is used as a fluorescence standard for the testing of fluorescence spectrophotometers. Though largely replace by Rhodamine 6G in more recent history. |
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